Armenian FM, U.S. state secretary to adopt statement on TRIPP implementation framework

YEREVAN. Jan 13 (Interfax) - Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan left for the United States on a two-day working visit on Tuesday.

"A meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is expected to take place during the visit. The sides plan to adopt a joint statement on the framework for implementing the [Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity] TRIPP," the Armenian Foreign Ministry's press service said in a statement.

The TRIPP is a 42-kilometer-long transit corridor between Azerbaijan and its exclave Nakhchivan in the south of Armenia. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, U.S. President Donald Trump and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev signed a declaration in Washington on August 8, 2025, stating that Armenia would work with the United States in cooperation with some third parties to come up with a framework for the TRIPP transport connectivity project on the territory of Armenia. The TRIPP project envisages the construction of motorway, railway and oil and gas infrastructure facilities.

Pashinyan said earlier that the Armenian-U.S. company formed under the TRIPP would manage the business operations of the new transit corridor rather than control it.